Rick Moranis

Actor

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Logical, original, creative thinkers. Can become very excited about theories and ideas. Exceptionally capable and driven to turn theories into clear understandings. Highly value knowledge, competence and logic. Quiet and reserved, hard to get to know well. Individualistic, having no interest in leading or following others.

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Biography

Frederick Allan “Rick” Moranis is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, director, singer-songwriter and former DJ.

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Quotes by Rick Moranis

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

I am wary of sequels. I understand them from the studio's point of view, but the audience doesn't want more, they want better, and I thought the second 'Ghostbusters' was not very effective, it did not really work, so there's no reason to believe a third would. I'm more interested in new things.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

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